BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Pipilo alleni CouBS, Am. Nat., v, Aug., 1871, 366, footnote (Dummitts Grove, 



Indian E., Florida; Mus. Comp. Zool.?'). 

 [Pipilo erythrophiliahnus.'] Var. allenii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 152. 

 Pipilo erythrophthalmus . . . var. alleni Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 204a. 

 Pipilo ei-yihrophihalmus, var. alleni Baied, Beewee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, Jan., 1874, 112.— Mbreiam, Am. Nat., viii, Feb., 1874, 87 (St. 



Johns and Ocklawaha rivers, etc., Florida). — (?)Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 



Club, iv, 1879, 9 (Coosada, Alabama, 1 spec. Mar. 28). 

 [Pipilo erythrophthalmus] b. alleni Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 173 (synonymy). 

 Pipilo erythrophthalmus alleni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 



181, 217; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 237tt.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 



1882, no. 302. — Ameeican Oenithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 



587a. — Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 274 (Gainesville, Florida; notes, etc.). — 



Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 323 (Punta Eassa and Tarpon Springs, s. w. Florida; 



Key West, 1 spec, blovi'n by gale). — Wayne, Auk, xii, 1895, 365 (Wacissa 



R., n. w. Florida, breeding). — Neheling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 177. 

 P.[ipilo'] e.[ry1.hrophthalmus] alleni Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 396. 

 P. [ipilo'] erythrophthalmus alleni Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 436. 

 [Pipilo erythrophthalmus.'] Subsp. a. Pipilo alleni Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xii, 1888, 746 (Clearwater, s. w. Florida). 

 Pipilo leucopis Maynard, Birds Florida, pt. v, July, 1878, 113, pi. 4 (Dummitts, 



e. Florida; coll. C. J. Maynard?) ; Birds E. N. Am. (revised ed.), 1881, 113, 



pi. 4. 



PIPILO ABERTI Baird. 

 ABERT'S TOWHEE, 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above uniform rather light broccoli brotvn, 

 becoming rather darker and somewhat grayer on remiges and rec- 

 trices, the primaries edged with pale brownish gray; beneath pale 

 cinnamomeous wood, brown, paler (dull grayish buffy) on breast, deeper 

 and tinged with vinaceous-cinnamon on throat and chest, the lower 

 abdomen ochraceous-buffy, the under tail-coverts still deeper, or 

 vinaceous-tawny; lores dusky, the chin and throat streaked with the 

 same (chin sometimes wholly dusky); bill pale grayish brown; tarsi 

 pale bi'ownish, toes darker. 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but paler and duller (less pinkish) 

 in color beneath, with the breast indistinct^ streaked with grayish or 

 dusky. 



Ad/ult males.— Length (skins), 208.79-232.16 (222.00); wing, 89.92- 

 96.77 (93.98); tail, 105.92-119.89 (113.28); exposed cuhnen, 14.99- 

 16.26 (16.00); depth of bill at base, 10.16-10.67 (10-41); tarsus, 27.94- 

 29.21 (28.45); middle toe,. 18.80-20.32 (19.66).' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 202.44-220.47 (211.33); wing, 

 85.34-91.95 (87.88); tail, 100.84-109.47 (105.66); exposed culmen, 



'Exact locality, etc., not mentioned, but the name based on specimens collected 

 at Dummitt's Grove by C. J. Maynard, and mentioned by J. A. Allen in Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 282. 



'' Eight specimens. 



